View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We also invested in more traditional IT and software categories much like other VC’s, and had not developed more of a market and consumer-driven POV on the future.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. At the end of the day, Apple isn’t really a software platform company. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2012.

Java 170

Java Flash Software Azure 170

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

Syndicate 98

Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 98

View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers.

Angel Investor 332

Angel Investor Boston Seed Stage Syndicate 332

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

Waves suite of tools linclude Invoicing, Accounting, Payroll, Payments and more, plus Personal Finance Software, too. Scott pioneered many of the most utilized concepts in online media including opt-in data collection, email to postal data appending, affiliate marketing, web syndication, internet reality shows and internet pay per view.

Management 167

Management Software Review eCommerce Entrepreneur 167

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. million times.

Community 100

Community Estonia Syndicate Syndication 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Depending on which channels you use in your marketing, this might include: Newsletters; Blog posts; Company social media channels; Personal social media accounts ; Influencers; Company and industry podcasts; YouTube; Paid ads (Google and social media); Messaging apps; Syndication platforms. Marketing software. Usage policies.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

In a world without cookies, we’ll see smart alternatives to targeting that avoid cookies altogether: contextual targeting, time-based targeting, and using syndicated and custom audiences, according to the 2021 media trends and predictions by Kantar. The “creator economy” will prosper in 2021.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Early Growth Financial Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Gene Marks Gene is the leading expert on small businesses, with an active readership across multiple syndication platforms. Martin Zwilling Martin has 30 years of executive experience in all aspects of building a company: including product management, marketing, and software development. Small Business 1.

Syndicate 50

Syndicate Syndication New York Software Developers 50

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2020

All you need to do is point the software at the folders and other data you want to index. An attorney by training, Elizabeth has spent many years in the software industry. The key search engine mechanism that, whether remotely or locally, enables instant searching of terabytes is called indexing. Indexing is easy.

Connecticut 246

Connecticut Azure Database Syndicate 246

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. ” And the honest answer is “not at all.”

Seed Stage 185

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does. Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 301

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems.

Audio 64

Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 64

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When he had his prototype solution for DataSift and had secured re-syndication rights (the rights to resell Twitter data – which only 3 companies ever had) I knew I wanted to work with him. Under Rob’s leadership we built out an amazing organization of seasoned enterprise software veterans in the US market.

Founder 309

Founder CTO Hire Silicon Valley Leadership 309

Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

While working in a big world-known company, our early process around translation management in software localization consisted of Google Sheets usage. It was confusing to track the updates in Google Sheets, so one of our top managers dedicated 1 day per week to manage translations for software localization. Photo Credit: Jack Miller.

Technical Review 139

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Jordan 139

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

IPO 100

IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. Find people who you think are great and don’t be worried about following their signal. Run in packs and learn from the group (but keep an independent mind). Talk to people and get their POV. I’m not that dogmatic here.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. Find people who you think are great and don’t be worried about following their signal. Run in packs and learn from the group (but keep an independent mind). Talk to people and get their POV. I’m not that dogmatic here.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. If it turned out that the best experiences I''ve had as an investor come from knowing someone a long time, I might go to events that are more around a specialty, like software development or design.

Venture Capital 162

Venture Capital Syndicate Syndication Founder 162

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. What’s Your Favorite Future?

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The parts of digital marketing we can track— email marketing , paid social, content syndication—are the tip of the iceberg. While software plays less of a role in giving credit, you can establish where you’re having success with qualitative research. Word-of-mouth interactions (e.g., text messages, DMs, video calls, etc.) Events (e.g.,

B2B 103

B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2014

This morning we announced that we have closed a financing in OnTheGo Platforms via our FG Angels syndicate. On October 1st, 2013 we announced that we’d be forming an AngelList syndicate called FG Angels and making 50 seed investments through AngelList by the end of 2014. would come from syndicate participants.

Syndicate 133

Syndicate Syndication Government Finance 133

Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Are the job listings syndicated with external job boards? Usually, some job listings are syndicated for free and receive limited traffic, while others are syndicated at a fee and receive much more targeted traffic. There are also ATS providers that do not syndicate job listings with external job boards at all.

Hiring 95

Hiring Syndicate Syndication Social Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Syndicate Funding on AngelList – A Company’s Perspective – crowdspring.co/Sl0HEA. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Process Is Being Told What to Do by Someone Who Has Less Information than You – crowdspring.co/SkUrN3. 1iGl0Sr.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Rypple makes HR software that helps companies run better. uTest is the world's largest software testing marketplace; it has created a community of 30,000 professional testers from more than 165 countries around the world.

Azure 74

Azure Venture Capital Software Review Syndicate 74

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. Austin is good at software, Dallas is good at retail, Houston is good at oil & gas, and San Antonio is good at cybersecurity (just for a few examples).

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We also invested in more traditional IT and software categories much like other VC’s, and had not developed more of a market and consumer-driven POV on the future.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 She is also considering developing software to address these issues. My recommendation to Hardika is to study the FDBI project. million financing round for.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. The purpose of this post isn’t to debate the pros and cons of software patents. If you’re interested in that discussion, my advisor and mentor, Brad Feld has written extensively about software patents on his blog.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. Upfront costs: The hardware and software you need to start a podcast. We dive deeper into each topic below.

Syndicate 85

Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

The majority of these interactions are self-guided from sources including social media, syndicated content, and industry-specific resources. Templates are easy to use with existing software and there’s enough choice to find something suitable. To secure a sale, you have to show up where your audience is looking for information.

B2B 129

B2B Email Sales Acquisition 129

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak Software Corporation. 3) ITA Relationship: Much has been made of the fact that Kayak along with OTAs (online travel agents) license data from ITA Software which is now part of Google. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

She began investing in real estate in 1994 by forming a small syndicate to purchase tax liens at auction. Since that modest start, she’s closed more than 600 transactions as an investor, broker, lender, syndicator and advisor. Sponsored hedge funds/syndicates including multifamily equity offerings and private equity mortgage funds.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Private Equity Equity 60

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? Google purchaed travel industry software company ITA Software for $700 million in July 2010. Google uses ITAs software to optimize its travel and flight search. ITA Software. ITA Software.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. The state of venture is changing and AngelList has been at the forefront of this movement for awhile.

Syndicate 88

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Portfolio 88

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. Typically, the gross margins aren’t there compared to software, so revenue isn’t quite as important in the early stages of getting to market. But the costs are definitely there.

Term Sheet 120

Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120